Posts by Cormac Staunton
Cormac Staunton @cormac_staunton
Cormac Stauton is currently a policy advisor on EU and international policy in the Central Bank of Ireland. Prior to this, he was a policy analyst in TASC, and co-authored the first economic inequality report, Cherishing All Equally.
Do we want the fewest public services in Europe?
Cormac Staunton 25/06/2015
Cormac Staunton: One of the key indicators in TASC's analysis of economic inequality is the level of taxation and government expenditure. We have …
UN Committee Response to Ireland on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Cormac Staunton 23/06/2015
Cormac Staunton: The UN’s Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, in its concluding observations on Ireland’s third periodic report, …
Lets start a race to the top: IMF on Inequality
Cormac Staunton 17/06/2015
Cormac Staunton: The IMF have released another staff paper on inequality with some very important findings for our understanding of both the causes …
USC cuts will still benefit higher earners
Cormac Staunton 06/05/2015
Cormac Staunton: The Government today signalled that instead of changing income tax rates and bands in Budget 2016, they are likely to reduce the 7% …
Planned tax cuts likely to increase inequality
Cormac Staunton 29/04/2015
Cormac Staunton: The Government's Spring Statement, announced yesterday, was seen by some as a bit of a damp squib, with very little detail about …
Shining a light on alternatives
Cormac Staunton 14/04/2015
Cormac Staunton: Two important recent announcements by Government signal moves towards addressing some of the causes of economic inequality in …
The Value of Nothing
Cormac Staunton 30/03/2015
Cormac Staunton: A serious suggestion doing the rounds at the moment is that we should have an independent body that costs political party manifestos …
Economic Inequality: Frequently Asked Questions
Cormac Staunton 27/03/2015
Cormac Staunton: Since launching our report Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland we have received a number of questions from a wide …
Mathematically Progressive or Socially Progressive?
Cormac Staunton 06/03/2015
Cormac Staunton: You don’t measure how peaceful an area is by counting the number of peacekeepers. If anything, the presence of peacekeepers is an …
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